*The Damage Lore skill mastery bonus will not affect damage over time effects that are stated in an ingame Combat Art tooltip (build-in [[Sacred 2:Damage over Time|Damage over Time]], caused by [[Sacred 2:Spell Damage Based Combat Arts|Spell Damage Based Combat Arts]] - eg, [[Sacred 2:Blazing Tempest|Blazing Tempest]]). However, it is possible for a monster to be affected by two different types of [[Sacred 2:Damage over Time|DoTs]]: one from the Spell Damage Based Combat Art (buil-in) and one due to the monster being burned.

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*The Damage Lore skill mastery bonus will not affect damage over time effects that are stated in an ingame Combat Art tooltip (build-in Damage over Time, caused by [[Sacred 2:Spell Damage Based Combat Arts|Spell Damage Based Combat Arts]] - eg, [[Sacred 2:Blazing Tempest|Blazing Tempest]]). However, it is possible for a monster to be affected by two different types of DoTs: one from the Spell Damage Based Combat Art (buil-in) and one due to the monster being burned.

*The [[Sacred 2:Ancient Magic|Ancient Magic]] Skill allows to partially ignore the target's Armor as well as Damage Mitigation for Spell Damage Based Combat Arts. This skill causes relative decrease of these modifiers as it affects only actual modifiers the target has.

*The [[Sacred 2:Ancient Magic|Ancient Magic]] Skill allows to partially ignore the target's Armor as well as Damage Mitigation for Spell Damage Based Combat Arts. This skill causes relative decrease of these modifiers as it affects only actual modifiers the target has.

Pseudo-DOT

Some Combat Arts are easily mistaken for Damage over Time. Like Damage over Time CAs, these Combat Arts have fixed durations, fixed damage and fixed frequency of attacks.
However, unlike Damage over Time, the damage from these Combat Arts can be blocked\reflected, armor protects against them, and each hit has a chance to cause the appropriate Detrimental magic effect. Furthermore, "Damage over Time:*** -x%" modifiers and Recovery Elixirs do not protect against the damage inflicted by these CAs.
Pseudo Dot can inflict pure DoT as a Secondary Damage Effect.

Notes

"DoT -X%" modifiers are cumulative, which means that values from different sources are simply added to each other (1+1=2) and can reach 100%, making a character effectively immune to a particular damage type DoT.

Several build-in DoT stack with each other; several DoT, caused by Secondary Damage effects, don't stack.

The target can be hit by different Damage Types at the same time (fire, ice, poison, physical, magic), but only one would be displayed.

Initial Duration of DoT effect is defined by DurationDOT parameter in balance.txt. Default value is DurationDOT = 500, which means that DoT lasts 5 seconds. For example, High Elf's Frost Flare would slow its target for as many seconds as said in CA description, but would deal DoT for 5 seconds.

It is impossible to block or reflect build-in DoT. Successfully blocking or reflecting, block/reflection negates all Secondary Damage Effects from blocked attacks.

The Damage Lore skill mastery bonus will not affect damage over time effects that are stated in an ingame Combat Art tooltip (build-in Damage over Time, caused by Spell Damage Based Combat Arts - eg, Blazing Tempest). However, it is possible for a monster to be affected by two different types of DoTs: one from the Spell Damage Based Combat Art (buil-in) and one due to the monster being burned.

The Ancient Magic Skill allows to partially ignore the target's Armor as well as Damage Mitigation for Spell Damage Based Combat Arts. This skill causes relative decrease of these modifiers as it affects only actual modifiers the target has.

Temple Guardian's CAs Fiery Ember and Icy Evanescence increase target's vulnerability to Ice or Fire; High Elf's Buff Crystal Skin has Feel Cold modification that causes all targets in close vicinity to the caster to be more vulnerable to Ice Damage. These CAs cause all enemies in Area of Effect to have modifier "Damage Vulnerability Ice/Fire +x%" which not only removes these enemies' resistance to Damage but can decrease it below zero, causing CAs to deal more damage than the value stated in CA description. These CAs do not affect target's Armor, but decrease Damage Mitigation modifier by fixed percentage (not by percent of target's mitigation like Ancient Magic).